cjensen

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by cjensen 12y ago
Many asteroids have moons [1]. This has no effect on the reclassification. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor-planet_moon
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by cjensen 12y ago
Thanks -- I get it now. Not sure I agree with the conclusion due to Yemen's nominal assent to this, but I don't disagree at all with the principle. As for the shoe on the other foot, that's an ongoing issue with the Polonium
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by cjensen 12y ago
Parent comment was specific that killing a member of AQ in a specific instance was unlawful under International Law. I was asking about that specific instance, so I'm not sure what point you are trying to make. Clarify?
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by cjensen 12y ago
It is not revenge to stop someone who has done you harm, openly states they will do you more harm, and has made additional attempts to cause you harm.
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by cjensen 12y ago
In your opinion, why does "a. Self-Defense" not apply when killing a member of an organization which has killed thousands inside the US?
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by cjensen 12y ago
Those 5K layoffs are just the ones the Union knows about, and they are direct layoffs. It's not the full extent of the direct layoffs, and it does not include the scummy "you're a bad employee so we might have to fire you soo
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by cjensen 12y ago
Back when compilers cost money, I had no problem as a $40K/year programmer paying >$200 for the latest edition annually. It really is about security. You have to ID yourself to get in. If you write malware, Apple has a kill switch t
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by cjensen 12y ago
I love Google Earth, but it hasn't been updated since 2013. The Mac binary isn't signed so it doesn't even run on modern OSX[1]. Has Google abandoned Google Earth? [1] Unless you know how to work around that, which the averag
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by cjensen 12y ago
No, vaccines do not all cease at 7 years. For those that do wear out, keep in mind that adults do not respond the same way to as children to all diseases. For example, Tetanus is bad in an adult, so we routinely take boosters for Tetanus. A
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by cjensen 12y ago
You're confusing Firefox Hello with WebRTC. Let me explain by analogy with a video codec: For video, Firefox contains a video codec. Surfing to YouTube lets the YouTube web page play video. Firefox does not contain a "Youtube Pl
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by cjensen 12y ago
A web browser should not include X functionality, but should allow a web page to implement X functionality. In my view, this is true for most values of X, including Skype, Mail, Word, Excel... To add insult to injury, there is no simple way
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by cjensen 12y ago
Great idea and format. I'm disturbed that some of the examples in the article appear to have errors. One sign has a column for "MWF" and a column for "T-Th". The latter I guess is meant to mean Tuesday and Thursday,
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by cjensen 12y ago
Love and appreciate that Backblaze presents this data, but there are some obvious issues: comparing the annual failure rate of a pool where avg. age is 1 year to a pool where avg. age is 3 years isn't a great comparison. Rather than an
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by cjensen 12y ago
When demand increases for Apples, the price of Apples increases. When the price of Apples increases, the demand for Oranges increases. Fed demand for Investment Bonds increases the price of Investment Bonds. When the price of Investment Bon
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by cjensen 12y ago
No. Ponzi schemes do not have a reserve, and there are no salable assets available for paying back the entirety of the deposit. Asking an easily-refuted question like this is little more than petulant foot-stomping from a Bitcoin aficionado
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by cjensen 12y ago
Given that the holidays occurred during the 90-day period, and that Microsoft was paying attention and made a fix, and that testing found an issue with the fix, I think it would be reasonable for Google to give Microsoft an extension on the
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by cjensen 12y ago
So far as has been observed, life does require liquid water. Some life can cease activity when dry and then restart when water resumes, but no life has been found that can live in an entirely dry environment. If this proves to be a requirem
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by cjensen 12y ago
Every time I read an article on HN about Elm, I go through a moment of confusion. Elm wasn't just some random piece of rarely-used free software where it makes sense to re-use the name. It was an extremely popular mail program. If you&
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by cjensen 12y ago
Solyndra was destined to go broke. Consider that they built a factory in the Silicon Valley (super expensive for power and labor) right next to a freeway with a giant copy of their name facing the freeway. They weren't trying to make s
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by cjensen 12y ago
Put more abstractly, "we should take money from successful nonprofit A even though A has done nothing improper because I disagree with A's goals and/or methods and think it's wrong that people continue to give A money.&q
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by cjensen 12y ago
I have an old copy of 'Ada as A Second Language'. It's like a million pages. A second language handbook shouldn't be thicker than K&R. Do you know any short books that really assume I already know how to program?
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by cjensen 12y ago
So does C++; both C++ and Ada have traits the other doesn't. Good ideas go around.
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by cjensen 12y ago
C++: numeric_limits<type>::max ()
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by cjensen 12y ago
Despite all of Google' effort, they still rely too much on USGS published maps. For example, just 6 miles from the GooglePlex is a road in Newark with a gate [1], but Google doesn't know you can't drive on it. They're do
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by cjensen 12y ago
The x265 [1] Project is great. That said, you might want to wait a year for them to improve the encode before messing with your entire collection. [1] http://x265.org
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by cjensen 12y ago
JPEG-2000, for example, is very hard to decode in a CPU. Many implementations take a second to decode an image. There are two really hopeful things about this new project: (1) by leveraging HEVC, we get cheap (energy efficient) and fast dec
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WSJ: ‘Apple Deleted Rivals’ Songs from Users’ iPods’(daringfireball.net)
8 points by cjensen 12y ago|0 comments
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by cjensen 12y ago
The author confuses sampling theory with reality. Sampling theory says you can reconstruct a signal by sampling it at least twice per cycle. So 44.1KHz is an adequate sampling rate for an 22.05Khz signal. Unfortunately to make Digital-to-An
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by cjensen 12y ago
The size of everything is unsigned. You may not know if size_t is unsigned int or unsigned long, but you can always be sure it isn't int.
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Easy Listening(marco.org)
4 points by cjensen 12y ago|0 comments

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